Because failing to acknowledge that the BBers had literally zero exposure to technology or that many Gen Yers struggle mightily with social skills is a productive and intelligent way to address communication breakdown that is taking place in corporate America.

Can we all just hold hands and skip now?

I doubt you have the breath of knowledge to state that a "communication breakdown" is taking place across the country. You are acknowledging issues within your own bubble and applying them to a much larger scale. That's probably why you didn't get the reaction you had hoped.

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I don't think that assuming people who had to communicate more in person, in social settings, are more social people with better interpersonal skills. You do something more you'll get better at it.

Social media is something that helps people avoid social situations. Instead of going to the park or joining a sport or hanging out at the local comix shop with other nerds you can now turn on Call of Duty and rawr on Chiefsplanet...

And this has lead to a communication breakdown in corporate america how?

My point is he is taking his challenges as [Insert repetitive job here] and assuming that is going on everywhere. That's why his OP, and subsequent posts have been fraught with poorly conceived generalizations.

I wasn't talking about corporate America. I'm just talking about younger people.

And I don't think it was their fault. The kids didn't create the social media or the Cell phones/Video games/computers they grew up with since age 6.

Agreed. I'm responding more to conversation in the thread than the thread starter...

Gen Z, as in mindless Zombies walking around with cell phones in their faces, oblivious to the real world happening all around them.

That's people of all ages now.

A year or two ago I went out with 10 people from work for a gal's birthday. After dinner 5 of those people spent the next 3 hours ****ing with their phones and interacting with no one...

Breadth.

Led.

Yeah, from teens to boomers; people love to **** with their phones in a social setting. I'm guilty of it from time to time, but usually when I get together with a group of people everyone I really care to talk to is probably there.

Nothing is worse than constant picture taking/check-in on Facebook woman. She wants everyone to know where she is, who she's with; and to show off all of her fun pictures!!

Gag.

I refuse to buy a smartphone. I know they're useful. But I already spend too much time on the computer. Having one in my pocket is too much of a temptation for me.

My phone is for calling and texting only. And taking pictures of things to post later on facebook. :D

Apply that as a machine learning concept and it gets even more interesting.

The matrix is real people...

Sorry was catching up on my twitter feed, what did you say?

Yeah, some days I feel like I'm staring at a screen all day. Laptop all work day; mixed with plenty of texts and calls. Then watch some TV to unwind. Browse CP on my phone on the couch. I just spend too much time on CP and Reddit, honestly.

It's getting nice out, so I don't really have an excuse to sit inside on my ass all day and night. Now I can sit outside on the patio and drink beer. :D

On my days off I ditch my phone and take a walk down to the shopping center.....so I can go inside a dark room and watch a movie and not talk to anyone. :D

:clap:ROFL

talking to people is way overrated

Interesting generalizations by some....funny creations by others.

I know just as many Baby Boomers that utilize technology as much as the Millenials or Gen Y/X. And I also know some Gen Y/X'ers that works from 8 AM to 8 PM from the office.

Each generation blames the next for society's ills....been that way for way too many years. And it will continue that way when, as Milkman referred to in his post, we have run out of alphabet labels.

My wife is Gen X, and she's AWFUL about being on her phone. I actually text her at dinner and in social situations, telling her to get off her phone because it's embarrassing. A large part of her business is social media, so that's partially to blame, but it's also just a bad habit.

People are becoming increasingly uncomfortable being in their own skins, imo.

True, so true.

My wife broke me of the habit when she left me alone at a dinner party and went to talk with other friends several years ago.

And all the frustration shown in this thread is a figment of my imagination. Thanks for participating.

If all the generations are the same then why are there the highest numbers in history of 20 somethings living with their parents? Just a thought.

Thanks! Care to address the ideas, or point out simple grammatical mistakes?

It's so easy now in a down moment to get on your phone and check the planet or Facebook. I find myself doing it instead of observing the world or meeting new people, and I see others doing the same thing. I don't think it's a good trend.

I was at a charity dinner the other night, one of those where a couple of hundred people buy tickets and eat a meal while there's a speaker. It was in a big mansion and the layout and acoustics didn't work well, so I could barely hear the speaker at all. It was awful because you couldn't talk to anyone else since the speaker was talking, but you couldn't hear the speaker half the time, either. I was at a table with half a dozen people and I was battling the whole time to keep from pulling out my phone and checking out Chiefsplanet.

I know this answer. What is stupid things that baby boomers believe, Alex.

Yes, it's all in your head.

That's the CP itch Rainman. This place will pull you in. You're checking in for no good reason, almost uncontrollably. You're fighting the urge to check in and see what clever puns have been dropped in the latest tragedy thread.

It's got you Rainman. There is no way out.

He's a 60 year old trapped in a 40 year old's body.

It's probably because they're lazy and actually enjoy living with their parents at that age! AMIRITE?

Nah, mainly grammatical mistakes.

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"When I was in my early 20s, I worked 60 hours/week at my factory job for $1.50/hour and by golly that was enough to buy a car, put a down payment on a house, and care for my two kids that I had at age 18 because society was weird about pressuring people into marrying and pooping out kids as early as ****ing possible. Why can't these gosh darn Generation Ys do the same thing? Probably because they're too busy checking their Facespaces, Mybooks, and Chiefs Planets all day!"

Ha, would you be interested in proofreading my posts? Because I could use it.

:)

"God dammit"

Because the cost of buying and running a house is rediculously overpriced. Add to that the mortgage crisis and the new loan rules where new applicants need to be able to put down 20% up front, and this is why most in my generation conitnue to live in apartments or parent's house.

The price of housing is ****ing rediculous, and in some areas a complete joke.

I think at one time in this country an auto mechanic with a stay at home wife and 2 kids could afford a home. Now? No F'n way. One parent has to be a software engineer and the other a master's degree school teacher as a baseline to live in any type of decent house in many areas of the country.

Seriously....you guys don't have Generation Jones listed. It runs from roughly 1954 to 65

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Jones

Do I get to edit for content? I wouldn't abuse the privilege, I promise. o:-)

Y U SO SIRIUS IN A TROLL THRED?

Barack Obama is awesome.

You want to know why gas is near $4.00 a gallon? I work in oil&gas, I know, it's not due to lack of resources, with fracking we have basically solved the oil situation for at least a 100 years. It's due to the lack of refineries. We haven't built a ****ing refinery in the US for like 30 years. Another reason why my generation is taking it in the ass.

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GEORGE BUSH DOESN'T CARE ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE

KANYE WEST DOESN'T EITHER

I think the Boomer have royally ****ed up this country...they used to be the hero's...now...they're the villians.

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From my estimation it's actually alot of the GenXers that caused the mortgage crisis bubble/meltdown.

Boomers were very much a part of it with the home equity loans/withdrawals.

Would you rather have a snarky college hipster kid with a smartphone or a self-righteous douchebag college kid who camps out on your lawn to protest shit, does LSD, and doesn't wear any clothes?

I'll take the smartphone kid, thank you very much.

Boomers were the reason housing prices were overpriced as shit to begin with, GenXers caused the collapse (with some Boomer help).

It has nothing to do with the economic stranglehold the 1%-ers (cheered by too many boomers) have put on the middle class during the last 10-15 years....right?

:rolleyes:

Yup. Self-absorbed navel gazing entitled brats...far to many of them anyway. Yeah, it's become a cultural epidemic of sorts, but they invented it and do it far better than most ever have...

The Generation Jones thing really rings very true too, from my observations.

I used to believe in the phrase "never trust anyone over 30", these days I believe quite the opposite.

It is not a generalization. Study after study shows that young professionals have a much better adoption of new technology and have a preference for remote work environments. Of course there are exceptions to the rule. But this is backed by data.

And by the way, these aren't always great things. Yps are less sociable because they are used to online and mobile interaction and are easily distracted and have short attention spans because they multi-task. Working remote has many disadvantages to it including failure to often build good office team relationships. It's a matter of preferences bit as of right now, the world isn't geared for this generation yet. That's starting to change.

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Your defense is that Y has been fighting in a foreign wars? That encompasses less than what? a tenth of one percent? Not lumping in all of them. But your generation has the welfare/dependent on government/vote strictly democrat class. That shit is going to be tough to break. I mean when you can get the equivalent of 40k a year?

The serving is exception not the norm, thankyou if you did.


I want a generation to take back America, cut down on greed a little bit. Reign in corporations and politicians while voting. Hell, create a new voting party. The older generations will not take part unless there is some major like a civil war.

It's all about attitude. Some people call it Generation Y. I call it Generation Y Not?

I call it Generation Y For myself...

Generation WHY...as in why am I looking at this thread?

Generation YOLO

George Bush is a Boomer
Franklin Raines is a boomer
Phil Graham
Barney Frank
Bill Clinton

are all Boomers. They aren't only ones that set the stage for that shit...but it's the Boomers.

Very interesting read. Some generalizations but much of it rings true.

http://waitbutwhy.com/2013/09/why-ge...e-unhappy.html

San Antonio housing prices are that high? Didn't seem Texas housing prices were really that outrageous to even us poor folks in Kansas City and the midwest. Just gets out of hand on the coasts or where liberals like to live.

The bolded isn't true. And on top of that, for those living at home and if they did want a house it should lead to having that kind of cash anyways with any type of fiscal responsibility. But many people that age aren't really interested in that type of commitment yet, which I can understand.

Because there's no such thing as a group dynamic, dominant subgroup or general population?

San Antonio is definitely on the low end of the Texas big 4 (D, Houston, Austin, SA) but the prices are rising. They build much more affordable housing here because half this city is involved in the military and the military pay scale will only go so high. But in D and Austin and many areas in Houston, price of housing is skyrocketing because retirees with deep pockets from the north are coming down and just raising the prices everywhere. Hell, half the country is trying to get into Houston because it is one of the few areas left in the US with any kind of significant job growth. Prices are going up here in short.

Double it up. Generation AA

The important thing is what are their stances on 3somes.